Membrane topology and mutational analysis of Escherichia coli CydDC, an ABC-type cysteine exporter required for cytochrome assembly

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3415-3427

  Cruz Ramos, Hugo ^a,b   Cook, Gregory M ^a,c   Wu, Guanghui ^a,d   Cleeter, Michael W ^a,e   Poole, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE DE LILLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ARGININE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CYSTEINE; CYTOCHROME; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LYSINE; POLYPEPTIDE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOCHROMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 6444238384     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27191-0     Document Type: Article

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